A better understanding of respirable dust particle characteristics is needed to advance exposure monitoring and prevent health effects. In coal mines and other occupational environments, understanding ...

On April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) published the long-anticipated final rule on respirable crystalline silica for coal mines and metal and nonmetal mines. As expected, ...

This report compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of respirable coal ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced that 99 percent of the coal mine dust samples collected from April 1, 2016, through June 30, 2016, were in compliance with its coal mine dust ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration reports that a recent sampling of respirable coal dust shows that phase II of the federal rule is having a "significantly positive" impact. Approximately 99 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the ...

This study aimed to quantify respirable dust (RD) and respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure in rice mills of Western India, and, evaluating their association with rice varieties and operational ...